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The highly innovative projection-based visual design was originated by Tobias G Randler, and then modified on the road by lighting director and lighting/video operator Michael Straun.

The design has evolved and grown, and currently five projectors are being utilised in total. Two Barco FLM22 22K projectors are positioned at FOH, and separately either projected across a white backdrop or carefully masked and beamed onto the band members, or as the set reaches its climactic conclusion, onto an imposing 12 x 12 ft three dimensional transparent X which is revealed for the final three numbers.

The Perspex X is also f

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During this year's PLASA show at Earl's Court in September, 47 products were judged, 'live' in front of show visitors, as an independent panel of expert judges toured the show floor, camera crew in tow, to view presentations about each product.

"Nominees are asked to demonstrate a new style of thinking, an improvement in technical practice, an aid to safety, energy-saving or sustainability benefits, or new technology, materials or techniques," explains one of the judges.

Designed and manufactured in the UK, Avolites Media's Sapphire Media Infinity represents the next exciting step in Media Server technology, says Steve Warren, managing director of Avolites Media. "The powerful unit contains an incredible 8 Full HD outputs and conven

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A series of visits to major UK and other European cities has been announced during November. Solutions on display include the PT-DZ21K series projectors which debuted at the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Also on show will be the PT-RZ470/RZ370 series lamp-free projectors and the latest Digital Link connection and HDBaseT technology plus LED/Laser-combined 1-chip DLP projectors with 20K hours of lamp life.

Also on display will be TH-65PB1 interactive display and the full Panasonic education range including the UB-T880 interactive whiteboard - one of the most advanced IWB systems on the market.

(Jim Evans)

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The media server technology, developed by the R&D team at Avolites Media, will be exhibited for the first time in the USA at the annual LDI show Las Vegas, 19-21 October 2012 at Las Vegas Convention Center.

Avolites Media will be at Creative Stage Lighting's stand, the company's US distributor, on Booth, # 1129.

Since its groundbreaking use on major events in the UK and beyond the Sapphire Media Infinity System has been the talk of the entertainment technology industry and, at the PLASA show, it won the much-coveted PLASA Award for Innovation with PLASA judges commenting: "It's the first integrated video control surface dedicated to video. It's well thought out and well designed."

Steve Warren, managing director for Avolites Media comments, "The

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Specified by Huddersfield University's senior technician and manager of resources for drama, theatre & performance - David Wainwright, the new Hippotizer HD will be used by students on the BA Honours courses in Technical Theatre and Drama.

As an experienced provider of industry-standard technical facilities to leading educational institutions and markets, AC-ET were approached by the University when deciding to replace their original Hippotizer media servers with the very latest and most powerful HD video playback technology currently available on the market.

"Our research confirmed that the Hippotizer HD is arguably the most popular and appropriate media server for the t

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Martin Price has been appointed as business development manager - Midlands and North, heading up an expanded team focused on building business for PSCo Rental and stamping its mark as the video wall and large format experts in the region. Price will concentrate on driving awareness of PSCo Rental's latest and most innovative displays, specialist service offerings, 24/7 technical support and complementary rental packages.

Commenting on the appointment, Stuart Holmes, CEO of PSCo Group said, "We are looking to develop PSCo Rental's of

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In addition to Sub-Focus the Ai Media Server, which is the result of collaboration between Avolites Media and Immersive, has been used extensively by Immersive to deliver stunning and dynamic shows for artists such as: Eric Prydz, Knife Party, Zane Lowe, Swedish House Mafia and Pendulum.

"We were looking to create an interactive audio visual experience in which audio and video were so intrinsically linked that they resulted in a powerful, all encompassing, synesthetic encounter for the spectator," explains Giani Fabricio, designer at Immersive. "The Ai Media server is the perfect partner.

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Jones joins the Chaos team on 1 November directly from PRG where he has been instrumental in the project management and delivery of their new video offering in the UK for the last two years. He brings with him over 25 years' experience across the whole live event industry with specific skills and focus in project management, video displays, switching systems, networking and complete system drawings.

"I look forward to joining and being part of the team at Chaos UK with such a great group of people; people who understand the value of client -supplier relationships," remarks Jones. "Chaos is one of the leaders in its field of specialist Video services and, along with the outstanding

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Fully HDCP compliant and operable in the 5 GHz spectrum, the device's rugged black plastic enclosure houses five antennas to bring strong signals and coverage to all destinations. In addition, proprietary Intelix technology delivers low AV latency, low power consumption, and real-time processing with less than three milliseconds of delay. Utilizing WHDI and AES 128-bit encryption to insure the integrity of every transmission, the SKYPLAY-HD system transmits in open spaces or through light cons

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With a 30-year pedigree, and offices across the UK (after starting out in Edinburgh), VisionEvents purchased two each of the Roadster WU14K-M and Mirage WU14K-M projectors as the major component of a £200K investment, to help maintain their status as a world class production company.

Said managing director, Chris Montgomery, "We've always been impressed with the Christie products as they design specifically for the industry. Their after sales service is excellent and our team really benefitted from the training they organised for the products we recently purchased. The projectors have already assigned to events last September."

The new Christie projectors were quickly put

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The structure covers 6,300 square meters and is designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects with Arup to be one of the most sustainable buildings in the world, using solar power and ground source heat pumps to generate its own energy among a large number of sustainable technologies. With offices and a 270-seat auditorium, the highly interactive building offers the publi

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From 17 to 26 August, the Zentraler Festplatz of Berlin was transformed into a magical stage, featuring Europe's biggest water show. Flash Art Show Productions' director Markus Katterle and Rock Solid Lighting's lighting designer Jens Hillenkotter created an extraordinary 50-minute performance with 500.000 litres of water, lasers, fire, lights and pyrotechnics synchronously to the music.

From the very early stages of the show, Markus Katterle and Jens Hillenkotter decided to use the V:3D software of Syncronorm.

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The show Five Windows was based around stunning large format projections highlighting the history, achievements and impact of the Hopkins Centre, which also houses the Ivy League College's drama, music, film and studio arts departments.

Giant images were projected on to the magnificent front façade of the Hopkins Centre, which was designed by architect Wallace Harrison and opened in 1962.

The College approached Ashton who has completed several prestigious projected art installations in the US within the last three years.

He comments, "It was an amazing opportunity to work with one of the most prominent educational institutio

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Initially, AC-ET will concentrate on the dual-arm YK50, the smallest yoke in the three product range, designed to support the Christie LHD700 3LCD, full HD projector, and LX700 XGA LCD projector - both offering a 7000 ANSI lumens output.

A.C. Video division's sales manager, Peter Butler comments, "AC-ET has been a Christie partner for many years and is delighted to add another high performing product to our distribution portfolio. The YK50 performed extremely well during testing and provides an exceptional quality of video with an extremely accurate y

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The Devon, UK based drapes, starcloth, LED and visual effects specialist S+H has invested in a quantity of the new LED panels as have Buckinghamshire based technical solutions providers, Universal Event Productions (UEP). The idea is that the two companies can work closely together and combine stocks of the same product to supply larger shows and events as required.

The screen features include a very light weight of just 4.5Kgs per panel (9.5 Kg per square metre made up from two panels), quick assembly and overall user-friendliness, all combined with an excellent multi-purpose pitch.

Essex based Ian Holmes was very keen to try the new screen out on the final stages of Kim Wilde's 2012 Snapshots tour w

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Da-Lite distributors Paradigm AV supported contracted suppliers GV Multimedia - who have a long-standing relationship with the University - and provided a single-mirror rear projection rig and technical drawings to ensure optimum utilisation of the space.

At the same time GV Multimedia project manager, Dan Victory, carried out his own computer predictions and visualisations to ensure the optimisation of off-axis viewing in the 240-capacity theatre and correct balance of brightness and contrast.

He opted for a Da-Lite Da-Snap (fixed snap-frame) solution, using Da-Tex rear pro screen material set flush against the high arched wall. The visible area now measures 19

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"Today's laser projection demo was fabulous! I'm impressed with the ultra brightness and life-like colours delivered onto the screen," said Ning Ye, general manager of Wanda Group.

"Christie is committed to creating new technology and maintaining our products at a high quality. We are continuously developing solutions to help exhibitors to project compelling, immersive images to their screens. Today we are pleased to demonstrate our first prototype laser projector to the exhibitors,&quo

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Central to this frantic activity was the group Company Conference for 3000 delegates, held at London's ExCel conference centre. The main plenary featured an impressive 36m edge-blended screen covered by six Christie Roadie HD+35K projectors and fed digitally over fibre-optic from a Barco Encore system.

Audio was handled by a d&b Q series line array system with a 48-channel Yamaha M7 and the lighting spec featured over 70 Robe LED fixtures including the new Robe 100. Live action camera feeds were supplied by four Sony HD cameras sub-mixed via a Tricaster 850 vision mixer. This spec was more or less mirrored in the second hall with ano

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The sale was co-ordinated by Peter Butler for AC-ET and Paul Wood, XL's project manager for The xx tour. Wood also liaised closely with XL Video's technical project manager, James Morden.

The Hippotizers were specified by the band's lighting director, Michael Straun and were specifically chosen as they were the only media servers able to fulfil the exact functionality and system requirements necessary.

Two of the Hippotizers are run live, while the third is used as a 'hot' backup - all running on the latest 3.1 version software.

The tour has included a wide variety of European festival dates.

(Jim Evans)

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Chris Crockford told LSi: "This is a blow to our original plans, but it will mean more bandwidth and more box connectivity. We have also found a couple of manufacturing errors with the original boxes when tested in the field, so we are working to correct them, along with integrating the feedback we received from people attending PLASA."

Designed for all aspects of the entertainment industry, the Super2fer allows users to modulate their video, audio, lighting, and IP data through standard 16A mains cable up to 500m from source.

To see Crockford's PLASA Show presentat

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Jones joined the Chaos team on 1 November directly from PRG where he has been instrumental in the project management and delivery of their new video offering in the UK for the last two years. He brings with him over 25 years' experience across the whole live event industry.

"I look forward to joining and being part of the team at Chaos UK with such a great group of people; people who understand the value of client -supplier relationships," remarks Jones. "Chaos is one of the leaders in its field of specialist Video services and, along with the outstanding quality of their delivery to clients, it made my decision to join them just very, very easy."

"I'm looking forward t

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Jim Hutchison, product manager wysiwyg and Vivien, will present the seminar entitled, The Birth, Childhood, and Apparent Adolescence of Lighting Design Technology as part of the PLASA Focus Professional Development Programme. The seminar will be held on Monday, 12 November from 1:30-2:30pm and again on Tuesday, 13 November from 12:30-1:30pm in the Massachusetts Room.

Hutchison's session will take trip through the last 75 years or so of lighting Design technology, from its birth with paper and pencil through the ab

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FRESH is a conference focused purely on meeting design. Attendees will experience, discover and learn about the latest tools and techniques to improve meetings and conferences and make them more effective. They can meet and confer with professionals in all aspects of meeting planning including design, production, facilitation, evaluation and much more. This mix of people and products make FRESH the conference of choice for anyone wishing to optimise the effectiveness of meetings, say the organisers.

This year the FRESH conference has a special focus on meeting formats, session formats and presentation formats, meaning visitors can expect an immersive and varied experience. Sessions include the 'learning carousel', featuring

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"The Bus, which has travelled the US for the past 15 years, visiting schools, musical and technology conferences and events, is only made possible through the generosity of its various sponsors, " confirms Chris Steele, product manager, Marquis Broadcast. "We have been delighted to contri